The Civil Guard and the Local Police of Telde, in the so-called "TODOGASGC" operation, have arrested 42 people and have investigated another 6 for crimes against road safety for their participation in illegal races.
Agents from both police forces detected that illegal races were being carried out on different roads in Telde, affecting the demarcation of both, thus initiating a joint operation.
The participants in the illegal races used an alert system to notify of the police presence and thus resume the races when the agents left the area.
Discreet surveillance and procedure of illegal races
For more than three months, a police operation was designed based on discreet and remote surveillance with camouflaged vehicles and police drones that would help capture the images that showed the true scope of the activities they carried out.
The researchers were able to verify how when competing, the participants positioned themselves in parallel in the middle of GC-1, slowed down its normal circulation and started the competition using the agreed signal: 3 blasts of the horn.
In these competitions, both passenger cars and mopeds participated, mechanically rectified to increase their power and speed, they randomly avoided the lanes of the road and even passed other road users simultaneously on both the left and right sides, causing a serious risk to life. road safety. These moped races had up to 7 participants who, once the competition started, constantly overtook each other during the 6 km (round trip) that lasted.
They had an audience that gathered together without any type of protection or signage.
An added risk to these illegal competitions was the presence of large audiences who, lacking any type of safety measure (reflective vests), were located both on the shoulder and in the joining lanes of the GC-1 to watch the race. Some of the attendees came to recklessly cross the road in the middle of the night, to stand in the median and thus be able to observe the race in both directions and even record it.
These races ended with the concentration of both the public and the participants themselves in different randomly chosen places, with the aim of commenting on the results of the races, actions in which it was also suspected that the consumption of narcotic substances was promoted.
Police action in full race
The Civil Guard and the Local Police of Telde carried out the exploitation phase last morning on March 31, carrying out a large police operation in which more than 50 police officers participated.
The Telde Local Police participated with numerous patrols as well as with the UNIDRON Unit, which provided air coverage for the entire intervention. On behalf of the Civil Guard, there was the Citizen Security Unit of the Las Palmas Command, the Cynological Service, the Services Nucleus and agents from the Las Palmas Traffic Subsector.
This police deployment made it possible to identify the composition of this illegal racing plot, resulting in the arrest of 42 people and the investigation of another 6.
In addition, 40 vehicles that were used to commit crimes have been seized and more than fifty administrative complaints have been formalized, including those under the Road Safety Law, highlighting those filed for driving a motor vehicle with the presence of narcotic substances in the vehicle. body, to the General Vehicle Regulations, for the various non-regulatory reforms carried out on vehicles, and to the Citizen Security Law for being in possession of narcotic substances on public roads, among others.